Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-11-18

And how much will you give for the
wealthiest cargo when it is put into a
leaky ship? Fl W can that bright, sharp
blade Of child's attainments be welded
without any handle? What are brains
worth without shoulders to carry them !?
What is child with magnificent mind but
an exhausted body2 Better that young
man OF twenty-one 60 forth into the world
without knowing a from Il he have
nealth Of body and energy to push
his way through the world than
at twenty-one to enter upon active life,
his head stuffed with Socrates, and Her
odotus, and Bacon, and La P ace, and no
physical force to sustain him in the shock
of earthly conflicts. From this infinite
olunder of parents how many have come
out in life with genius that could have
piled Ossa upon Pelion and mounted
upon them to scale the heavens, and to
nave laid down painting with physical ex-
hsustion before mole-hill. They who
might have thrilled senates and marshaled
armies and startled the world with the
shock of their scientific batteries. have
passed their lives in picking up prescrip.
lions for indigestion. They owned all
the thunderbolts of Jupiter, but could not
get out of their rocking chair to use
them. George Washington in early life
was poor speller, and spelled hat
a-a-dou ole-t and ream of paper he
spelled "rheam," but he knew enough to
spell out the independence eff this coun-
Try from foreign oppression. The knowl-
edge of the schools is important, but
there are other things quite as important.
Just as great is the wrong done when
the mind is cultivated and
THE HEART NEGLECTED.
The youth of this day are seldom denied
any scholarly attainments. Our schools
and seminaries are ever growing in ef-
fcienCy, and the students are conducted
through all the realms of philosophy, and
art, and language, and mathematics. The
most hereditary obtuseness give way be-
fore the onslaught of adroit instructors
But there is development of infinite i'm
pOrtsnce which mathematics and the
dead Languages cannot affect. The more
mental power the more capacity for evil
unless coupled with religious restraint.
You discover what terrible power for
evil unssuctifed genius possesses when
you see Scaligar with his scathiDg de
nunciations assaulting the best men OF
his time, and Blount and SplnoZa
and Bolingbroke leading their
hosts of followers into
the aL-consuming fires of skepticlsm and
infidellty. Whether knowledge is q
mighty good or an Unmitigated evil de-
ponds entirely upon which course it takes
The river rolling on between round
banks makes ali the valley laugh with
golden wheat and rank grass, and catch
ing hold the wheel of mill and factory,
whirls it with great industries. But,
breaking away from restraints and dash
ing over banks in rel wrath, 1t washes
away harvests from their moerings and
makes the valley shrink with the catas-
trophe. Fire in the furnace heats the
house or drives the steamer, but, uGcon-
trolled warehouses go down in awful
crash before it, and in few hours half
city will lie in black ruin, walls and
towers and churches and monuments
You must accompany the education OF
the intellect with the education of the
heart, or you are rousing up within your
child an energy which will be blasting
and terrific. Better
WICKED OUNCE
than wicked philosopher.
The fourth error often committed In
the training of children Is the suppression
of childish sportfulness. The most tri-
umphant death of any child that l ever
knew was that of Scoville HAYNES McCol-
lum. A few days before tnat he was at
my house in Syracuse, and he ran like
deer and his hslloO made the woods echo.
You could hear him coming q block Oh,
so full WAS he Of romp and laughter and
whistle. Don't put religion on your
child as straight jacket. Parents after
having for good many years been jOst-
led about in the rough world often lose
their vivacity, and are astonished to see
how their children can act so thought
lessly of the earnest world all about
them. That is 8 cruel parent who
quenches sny Of the light In the child's
soul. Instead of arresting its sportiVe-
ness, go forth and help him trundle the
hoop and fly the kite and build the snow
castle. Those shoulders are too little TO
carry burden, that brow is too young o
be wrinkled, those feet are too sprightly
10 go along at funeral pace. God 0lees
their young hearts! Now is the time for
them to be sportful. Let them romp and
sing and laugh, and 60 with q rush and
hurrah. In this way they gather up 8
surplus of energy for future life. For
the child that walks around with a scowl,
dragging his feet as though they were
weights, and sitting down by the hour in
moplng and grumbliug, prophesy life
of utter hamilton and discomfort. Sooner
hush the ROBINS in the air till they are
silent as bat, and lecture the friskiug
lambs on the hillside until they walk like
old sheep, rather than put eXhilarRnt
childhood in the stocks.
The fifth error in the training of child
hood is the postponement of It's moral
culture until too late. Multitudes of
children, because Of their precoclty, have
been urged into depths of study where
they ought not to go, and their intellects
have been overburdened and overstrained
and battered to pieces against Latin
GRAMMAR AND ALGEBRA,
and coming firth into practical life they
will hardly rise into mediocritY, ard
there is now stuffing and examining sys-
TEN of education in the schools OF our
country that is desthful to the teachers
who have to enforce it, and destructive to
the children who must submit TO the pro-
cess. You find children at nine aud ten
years OF sge with school lessons only
appropriate for children of fifteen. Ii
children are kept in school and studying
from to O'CLOCK, no homes5uds
except music ought to be rsqdire9
of them. Six hours of study is enough
for any child. The rest Of the day onsht
to be devoted to recreation and pure fun.
But you can not begin too early the moral
culture of child, or on too complete q
scale. You can look back upon
your own life and remember
what mighty impressions were made
upon you at Eve or six years Of sge. Oh,
haf child 6nas Gilnnf dnr